The Mental Health Consequences of Losing a Loved One to COVID-19

The loss of a relative or loved one to COVID-19 has been shown to have mental health consequences for grieving adults, yet limited research has explored this matter among young adults and more specifically those living in Rhode Island. This study assesses the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Rhode Island young adults who have lost a relative of loved one to COVID-19, and the factors that increase the risk of poor mental health. The Rhode Island Young Adult Survey (RIYAS),a web-based survey that was administered to young adults, 18-25 years old, to collect data regarding young adult behavioral health, risk behaviors, and mental and physical health outcomes, was used to address this research question. Nearly 1 in 5 young adults in RI reported having lost someone close to them to COVID-19. Our analysis also indicates that experiencing a loss of a loved one due to COVID-19 increases the risk of having mental health symptoms such as anxiety or suicidal ideation

Exploring perspectives of students studying communication toward media access and use: A Q method study

Scope and Method of Study: This study sought to help news industry professionals and educators tailor their services to a young audience that has grown up among a plethora of media options. To better reach and educate today's up-and-coming media professionals, those in the industry need a better understanding of modern media students' perspectives of news. This study used Q methodology and relies on Stephenson's Play and Dutta-Bergman's Media Complementarity theories. Students on a large, comprehensive university campus pursuing undergraduate studies via a communications-related major during the 2010-2011 school year were asked to complete a Q sort and demographic instrument. Thirty-four participants resulted in 33 usable sorts. Q statements in this study referenced both how communications students use various media channels and modern media pundits.Findings and Conclusions: The following labels were applied to the three perceptions found in this study: Old-school Media Hounds; Sensational Snippets; and Complimentary Convergers. Old-school Media Hounds tend to be more traditionally news oriented, with a strong appreciation for newspapers' role as government watchdog. Sensational Snippets tend to seek their news in convenient bits and pieces, often from non-traditional news sources. Complimentary Convergers are similar to Old-school Media Hounds in their views of the press, for example, they appreciate the role of the press as government watchdog. However, they do not prefer one media channel more than another, but expect to obtain credible news information free of charge. This study provided recommendations for news industry professionals and educators regarding the three perspectives

On exploiting social relationship and personal background for content discovery in P2P networks

International audienceContent discovery is a critical issue in unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as nodes maintain only local network information. However, similarly without global information about human networks, one still can find specific persons via his/her friends by using social information. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate the problem of how social information (i.e., friends and background information) could benefit content discovery in P2P networks. We collect social information of 384, 494 user profiles from Facebook, and build a social P2P network model based on the empirical analysis. In this model, we enrich nodes in P2P networks with social information and link nodes via their friendships. Each node extracts two types of social features-Knowledge and Similarity-and assigns more weight to the friends that have higher similarity and more knowledge. Furthermore, we present a novel content discovery algorithm which can explore the latent relationships among a node's friends. A node computes stable scores for all its friends regarding their weight and the latent relationships. It then selects the top friends with higher scores to query content. Extensive experiments validate performance of the proposed mechanism. In particular, for personal interests searching, the proposed mechanism can achieve 100% of Search Success Rate by selecting the top 20 friends within two-hop. It also achieves 6.5 Hits on average, which improves 8x the performance of the compared methods

Searching for VHE gamma-ray emission associated with IceCube neutrino alerts using FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

The realtime follow-up of neutrino events is a promising approach to search for astrophysical neutrino sources. It has so far provided compelling evidence for a neutrino point source: the flaring gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 observed in coincidence with the high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A detected by IceCube. The detection of very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE, E > 100 GeV) from this source helped establish the coincidence and constrained the modeling of the blazar emission at the time of the IceCube event. The four major imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (IACTs) - FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS - operate an active follow-up program of target-of-opportunity observations of neutrino alerts sent by IceCube. This program has two main components. One are the observations of known gamma-ray sources around which a cluster of candidate neutrino events has been identified by IceCube (Gamma-ray Follow-Up, GFU). Second one is the follow-up of single high-energy neutrino candidate events of potential astrophysical origin such as IceCube-170922A. GFU has been recently upgraded by IceCube in collaboration with the IACT groups. We present here recent results from the IACT follow-up programs of IceCube neutrino alerts and a description of the upgraded IceCube GFU system

Calibración extrínseca de un conjunto de cámaras RGB-D sobre un robot móvil

La aparición de las cáqmaras RGB-D como sensores robóticos de bajo coste ha supuesto la inclusión habitual de varios de estos dispositivos en una creciente cantidad de vehiculos y robots. En estos casos, la calibraci on precisa de las transformaciones espaciales existentes entre las c amaras del mismo robot es de capital importancia a la hora de obtener medidas ables del entorno. Este articulo evalua el metodo de calibracion con formula cerrada descrito en [7] y lo extiende con una propuesta alternativa basada en un m etodo iterativo y una extension robusta de este ultimo en dos escenarios: i) un entorno simulado con cambios en el nivel de ruido de las observaciones, en el numero de observaciones obtenidas, en la proporcion de outliers y en las posiciones relativas de las c amaras, y ii) una con guraci on particular de 3 c amaras RGB- D sobre un robot real. Los resultados de la evaluacion muestran una mayor precision para nuestra propuesta iterativa robusta en todos los escenarios analizados. El codigo fuente de la implementacion de estos metodos en C++ se proporciona para su uso publico.Proyecto PROMOVE:DPI2014-55826-R (MINECO). Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Investigación de mercado para la Empresa Constructora el Carmen que permita proponer un Plan de Marketing que diversifique los servicios en el sector construcción en el ámbito de la Región Piura

La realidad del siglo XXI exige que las empresas estén preparadas para hacer frente a las exigentes necesidades del cliente, promoviendo un permanente valor agregado a sus productos y/o servicio, que genere consolidarse en el mercado. Es fundamental que estas decisiones estratégicas estén fundamentadas técnicamente a través de un Plan de Marketing. Constructora El Carmen es una empresa dedicada a la construcción de obras públicas como privadas, no es ajena a esta necesidad de planificación, mas aun cuando pertenece a un sector que posee amplias expectativas de crecimiento y como tal exigirá una mayor preparación en la oferta de su servicio. Es por ello que para iniciar esta investigación se planteo la pregunta: ¿En qué medida conocer la situación comercial de la empresa Constructora El Carmen permitirá proponer un Plan de Marketing que diversifique sus Servicios en el ámbito de la Región Piura?, a lo cual se propuso como hipótesis a resolver la siguiente: La situación comercial de la empresa Constructora El Carmen en la Región Piura, determina que las condiciones de gestión son desfavorables, lo cual posibilita proponer un Plan de Marketing que permita diversificar sus servicios. El primer paso fue delinear en coordinación con la gerencia de la empresa un plan de trabajo, que nos permita recabar toda la información y realizar ciertas aplicaciones (encuestas). Pero fundamentalmente generar el compromiso de todos los miembros. La formulación de este plan de marketing que se ha realizado en la presente investigación, es desarrollar un diagnóstico estratégico, que permitió analizar tanto los factores internos como externos de la empresa, con lo cual se identifico las fortalezas, debilidades, amenazas y oportunidades. Luego se formulo los objetivos estratégicos, a partir de los cuales se han planteado proyectos y estrategias que atiendan el manejo comercial de la empresa. Agradecemos a todas las personas que colaboraron en la presente investigación, y esperamos que haber demostrado la importancia del plan de marketing para las empresas, con respecto a la gestión de las ventas. Más aun cuando el cliente es más profesional en sus expectativas de gustos y preferencias